Two Billion Dollars in Nickels
February 2009
Paul Orfalea and his coworkers grew Kinko’s from a tiny shop in Isla Vista, California to an international chain doing sales of almost $2 billion per year. Kinko’s was a company driven by ideas, and many of those ideas can be found in this book, a collection of essays on Paul’s approach to entrepreneurial living. As the economy recovers from the excesses of self-obsessed CEOs, here is a reminder that devoting oneself to the welfare of customers and coworkers can bring great financial and personal success.